OK

Rating: 7/10 (22 October 2004)

Certainly it's not easy to film this in the sixties. The battles are quite faithfully portrayed and the effects are good - of course, we can't compare it with Saving Private Ryan. I also like the idea of describing what the Germans were up to, and thank God, no one attempted to play Hitler. It could be potentially disastrous otherwise!
However, I wonder if the soldiers on the battlefield could really be moving so slowly, and actually had time to get down to talk about the boots worn by the Germans and why one wore a lifecoat. Also, the ending is rather abrupt without much reference to the reaction of the Germans or the French who played a heavier role in the beginning of the film.